 Industry in the woreda includes 10 grain mills and one brick factory employing 44 people, as well as 314 registered business including wholesalers, retailers and service providers; although feldspar, quartz and garnet deposits are known to exist, only dolomite and granite are quarried.There were 36 Farmers Associations with 25,727 members and one Farmers Service Cooperatives with 1336 members.Gursum has 75 kilometers of gravel and 30 kilometers of road, for an average road density of 119.7 kilometers per 1000 square kilometers.